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Article: A guide to a healthier you. (For Brothers Only).
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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IT'S nothing new. In fact, the rules have remained virtually the same. But even so, we as a race, and particularly we as African-American men, many times fail to follow them--fail to follow the rules of good health, to heed time-proven medical advice.
Many of us live our lives as if there were no tomorrow. We do things that we know aren't good for us, and we don't do things we know are good for us. As a result, African-Americans are ravished by serious ailments and deadly diseases at an alarming rate. The result is a life expectancy for Blacks that, in this day and age, is an amazing six years shorter than Whites.
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